From: Morten Kjeldgaard <mok@xxxxxxxxxx>
> I am a bit puzzled at the versioning scheme of the RedHat clone family.
> RedHat seems to use integer 4, Tao and Centos does the same. If you do
> rpm -q --qf '%{version}\n' -f /etc/redhat-release
> you get '4'.
> However, Scientific Linux uses 4.0, and that seems to me to be a more
> logical choise, since presumable there are going to be versions 4.1,
> 4.2, etc.
Unfortunately, the "release" file impacts build environments.
E.g., dist-tag. So it shouldn't be done on a dime.
Even Red Hat has really pulled some doozers -- like getting rid of revisions,
restarting the numbering on Fedora Core to 1 which threw a wrench
into the dist-tag through Red Hat Linux 9, etc...
[ I can only assume there was a more important, legal reason, like
not showing product lineage to protect Red Hat(R)? ]
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Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx
